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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2 Final//EN"> <!-- Created from PDF via Acrobat SaveAsXML --> <!-- Mapping table version: 28-February-2003 --> <HTML> <HEAD> <META name="dc.title" content="*Any large slide can be called an avalanche" > <META name="dc.date" content="2009-08-13T11:30:31-04:00" > <META name="dc.date.modified" content="2009-08-13T11:30:35-04:00" > <META name="generator" content="Adobe Acrobat Exchange-Pro 7.8" > </HEAD> <BODY bgcolor=white text=black link=blue vlink=purple alink=fushia > <DIV class="Sect" ><DIV ><P align="justify" ><FONT size="+1" color="#000000"></B>*Any large slide can be called an avalanche<FONT size="+1"> </P ><P align="justify" ><FONT size="+1">*Submarine land slides, slope slides margin slides and turbidity currents<FONT size="+1"> </P ><P align="justify" ><FONT size="+1">*Badlands - Linear slopes & divides, knife edge ridges<FONT size="+1"> </P ></DIV ><DIV ><P align="justify" ><FONT size="+1">8-1</P ></DIV ><DIV ><P align="justify" >Cenozoic Tectonism - Modem Continent Shape<FONT size="+1"> </P ><P align="justify" ><FONT size="+1">- Sea Floor Spread, layer ocean, Antarctic Ice<FONT size="+1"> </P ><P align="justify" ><FONT size="+1">Tectonic Orogeny Mt. Bidg = Diastrophism<FONT size="+1"> </P ><P align="justify" ><FONT size="+1">Orogeny & Converging plates = Himalaya & Urals<FONT size="+1"> </P ><P align="justify" ><FONT size="+1">Island arcs, trenches, cordillera. Collision hills and Strike/Slip<FONT size="+1"> </P ><P align="justify" ><FONT size="+1">Island Arcs, - Pacific, Indonesia, Caribbean (Role of Coral in windward locations)<FONT size="+1"> </P ><P align="justify" ><FONT size="+1">Cordillera - Andes - Narrow range. Narrow valley, Andesitic volcano.<FONT size="+1"> </P ><P align="justify" ><FONT size="+1">Collision Belt - Fault Block Mts. Argentina Pampas<FONT size="+1"> </P ><P align="justify" ><FONT size="+1">East Canada Rocky Mt/<FONT size="+1"> </P ><P align="justify" ><FONT size="+1">Appalachain Mt.<FONT size="+1"> </P ><P align="justify" ><FONT size="+1">Extensional - Basin & Ridge vs. Sierra Nevada & Colorado Plateau<FONT size="+1"> </P ><P align="justify" ><FONT size="+1">Rift Valley - East Africa<FONT size="+1"> </P ><P align="justify" ><FONT size="+1">Strike / Slip - Lebanon - Dead Sea<FONT size="+1"> </P ><P align="justify" ><FONT size="+1">Uplift - opposed to gravity of geoid<FONT size="+1"> </P ><P align="justify" ><FONT size="+1">New Zealand & PNG<FONT size="+1"> </P ><P align="justify" ><FONT size="+1">Space GEodesy - VLBI, SLR, GPS .<FONT size="+1"> </P ><P align="justify" ><FONT size="+1">Epeirogeny - Continental Formation<FONT size="+1"> </P ><P align="justify" ><FONT size="+1">Craton Shields - low relief- volcanic<FONT size="+1"> </P ><P align="justify" ><FONT size="+1">(US intermountain plateaus) - Mantle plumes and uplift below crust<FONT size="+1"> </P ><P align="justify" ><FONT size="+1">Rates - Vary slow vs fast<FONT size="+1"> </P ><P align="justify" ><FONT size="+1">10m vs 100m / 100 m yrs<FONT size="+1"> </P ><P align="justify" ><FONT size="+1">Neotectonism - years & decades of new movement vs. seismotectonics - 6 mm/yr<FONT size="+1"> </P ><P align="justify" ><FONT size="+1">Appalachian Mts.<FONT size="+1"> </P ><P align="justify" ><FONT size="+1">Tectonism & Climate<FONT size="+1"> </P ><P align="justify" ><FONT size="+1">Monsoon - AM to CW climate cause a effect of drainage<FONT size="+1"> </P ><P align="justify" ><FONT size="+1">Terra Rocha of Tropics<FONT size="+1"> </P ><P align="justify" ><FONT size="+1">Desertification<FONT size="+1"> </P ><P align="justify" ><FONT size="+1">Chemozem Soil<FONT size="+1"> </P ><P align="justify" ><FONT size="+1">Patterned Ground of Tundra<FONT size="+1"> </P ><P align="justify" ><FONT size="+1">Pingos<FONT size="+1"> </P ><P align="justify" ><FONT size="+1">Glacial Soils<FONT size="+1"> </P ><P align="justify" ><FONT size="+1">Caliche of Desert and Adobe<FONT size="+1"> </P ></DIV ></DIV ></BODY> </HTML>
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